Innocence

He was prepared to teach him, so many things.

He saw innocence in his face, and naïveté in his eyes.

The man saw a boy, and the boy saw nothing.

He tried to teach him, the knowledge of his age.

He tried to strip him of his innocence, take him down that path.

The man tried to ruin the boy, not out of spite, but habit.

The boy played innocence well, taking from the man a dream.

The boy acted as student, as he tore the man down, brick by brick.

The boy ruined the man, not out of spite; but out of necessity,

For the man saw a boy-and the boy, he saw another flight of fancy,

The boy saw a quick trip, and the man saw nothing, until it was all gone.